Search results for

Paris Fashion week is under way — but does it matter to people's everyday lives? Aaron Wong says yes. He is a Yale doctoral candidate and taught a seminar in fashion critical theory.

Now that recreational use of marijuana is legal in four states, law enforcement officials are looking for quicker ways to test drivers for excessive pot use. Entrepreneurs are taking on the challenge.

President Biden recently announced a new COVID plan to try to get things back to normal. Dr. Ashish Jha — a familiar face in the public health community — helped develop that plan.

Experts predict Henri will settle for a while near the New York-Connecticut border before heading back east.

Ellen Jovin set up a table in New York City where anyone can stop by and ask a question about grammar. "They just walk up, and they'll say, 'Is there an apostrophe in this word?' " she says.

Some screenings and treatments no longer make sense for patients as they age. Researchers have just added a few more to the list.

Netflix's The Chair stars Sandra Oh as the first woman of color to chair her department. Real-life academic Dr. Nancy Wang Yuen tells NPR's Asma Khalid about what she finds accurate in the series.

NPR's Pien Huang speaks with writer and director Zach Braff about his new movie A Good Person.

An exhibition at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum points to a burgeoning trend: museums are engaging the public more openly around efforts to repatriate artifacts looted from other countries.

The disbanding of committees that consulted on government data — and comments from a senior official about changing how GDP is calculated — are raising alarm about the reliability of government data.

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is defending the court majority's work on emergency rulings. NPR spoke with Sarah Isgur, editor of SCOTUSblog, who recently interviewed Barrett.

Florida is going all-in on President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration. Gov. Ron DeSantis has ushered in a new law that formalizes agreements between all 67 Florida sheriffs and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The move enables local officers to enforce federal immigration laws. Florida has also imposed harsher penalties for offenses committed by people illegally in the U.S. than for everyone else.

Russian forces launched a massive aerial attack on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, and officials say at least 22 civilians were killed and 138 were wounded. The assault began overnight and continued during the day.

An international group of researchers has voted to modify the scientific names of more than 200 plant species whose names carry a derogatory word.

Continental Army soldier John Pumphrey enlisted as a teenager in 1777 and fought at significant battles before his death in action against the British in Camden, S.C.

For decades, Ali Akbar has sold papers on the Left Bank of Paris. Last month, France gave the beloved 73-year-old immigrant from Pakistan one of its highest honors — and his neighborhood is cheering.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Norm Eisen, whose legal group Democracy Defenders Action has been fighting the Trump administration in court over its efforts to rename and close the Kennedy Center.

The fridge-size satellite with AI chips on board is part of Project Suncatcher, the company's moonshot effort to put AI data centers in space and harness solar energy.

Health News Florida partner station WMFE in Orlando has produced an in-depth series for the one-year anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting. The...

Updated 11 a.m. There was an unexpected recess in former Congresswoman Corrine Brown’s federal corruption trial in Jacksonville Friday morning after she...

While staff and faculty at the University of South Florida have $8 million in raises to look forward to, the looming specter of a $12 million budget…

Of the 1,100 acres that make up Fort De Soto County Park, the beaches probably get the most traffic. Both are close to grassy picnic areas under shade…

Even though enrollment is dwindling in Pinellas County schools, its English Language Learner population continues to grow.

County staff will use the year to consider things like the consumption of electricity and water, noise abatement, environmental impacts, and defining data center uses.

The big oil companies come under attack for earning billions in profits as gasoline prices have soared. Oil executives say their companies' earnings aren't excessive. But lawmakers are talking about reining them in, and a debate is brewing on how to help consumers.